Eventually, what we'd like to do is if they see a pipe or a very narrow gap they say, okay my body is too big, it will change to become a snake to go through it.

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They have a big incentive to take care of the system, because if any one of them causes a blockage to his pipe, his neighbours will be in trouble too.

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Sun's announcement marks the information technology industry's latest step toward "utility computing, " a grid system in which companies pipe in data processing and storage from faraway server farms, says Nicholas Carr, author of The Big Switch, a book on utility computing published earlier this week.

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